Cryptic across
1 Outpouring, a volume of tears Noah overcame (5)
4 Miners after pub go to ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’, so he claimed (6)
10 God is feeble Old Testament holds (5)
11 Rome’s under bombardment in conflict on northern fronts makes Caesar cross? (7)
12 Part of Paul’s mission is to form NT choir (7)
13 Classic Red River when viewed in Spain; Germany’s OK, too (5)
14 Response to Catholic reforms aiming at Dad not being orthodox (11)
19 Plant the Italian, moving around, found by a lake in France (5)
21 Masses will get this money when Gregorian type of reliquary is emptied (7)
23 Waters retreat trapping writer going back for some old Italians (7)
24 Lot he made from Irish islands’ premier hotel (5)
25 Esau’s grandson, a boy king (6)
26 Refuse old agent contact with leading medic (5)
Cryptic down
2 Council meeting managed to finish behind time (7)
3 Jebusite’s grandmother’s golden apogee (5)
5 Part of the old dominion that’s unpredictably ratable (7)
6 Pharaoh gets headgear for the clergy (5)
7 Strong chap his father, this bloke knocked off 1 fellow’s head (6)
8 Times 2 puzzle, at the double (5)
9 What you badly desire coach to see? (11)
15 Make angry – it’s all the rage to call for change (7)
16 It’s time, Samuel, to ring up a god (7)
17 Pressure on religious leader to cover saint’s bloody bits (6)
18 Attaching drawing (5)
20 Pay bill without tips, upsetting African place (5)
22 Leadership is lost for headstrong patriarch (5)
Quick across
1 Nimble (5)
4 Be imminent or about to happen; threaten (6)
10 Mountains of Morocco: book of maps (5)
11 Made up of famous top performers (3-4)
12 Colossians, Ephesians, etc (7)
13 Desist (5)
14 Inhabitants of an OT empire from c 612 BC until Persians took its capital in 539 BC (11)
19 Applaud (5)
21 Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness (7)
23 Port of upper Normandy (2,5)
24 Cut at an angle (5)
25 Gathering (6)
26 Carpenter’s machine (5)
Quick down
2 Destination of one of Paul’s 12 (7)
3 Strong tightly-twisted cotton thread (5)
5 Last book of the OT (7)
6 What’s called a ‘sundry’ in Australian cricket (5)
7 Moved along rapidly and lightly (6)
8 Add up (5)
9 Time between Palm Sunday and Easter (7,4)
15 Capital of Armenia (7)
16 Biblical city founded by Nimrod (7)
17 Carve in wood, ice or metal (6)
18 Pastoral poem (5)
20 The clear upper air; an early anaesthetic (5)
22 Kind of crossing (5)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0476: Across: 1 Jonadab, 5 Jesus, 8 Ricin, 9 Testing, 10 Stephen, 11 Ittai, 13 Lassie, 15 Assail, 18 Motet, 20 Invader, 22 Deborah, 23 Lyric, 24 Totem, 25 Sidearm. Down: 1 Jerusalem, 2 Nucleus, 3 Dinah, 4 Botany, 5 Jesuits, 6 Swift, 7 Sag, 12 Illyricum, 14 Interim, 16 Andorra, 17 Rights, 19 Tobit, 21 Valid, 22 Dot.
Quick answers to No 0476: Across: 1 Tabitha, 5 En-Dor, 8 Anzio, 9 Askance, 11 Nabob, 13 Eyelet, 15 Shiraz, 18 Sushi, 20/10 Quentin Durward, 22 Justice, 23 Corgi, 24 Salve, 25 Kingdom. Down: 1 Thaddaeus, 2 Bizarre, 3 Troia, 4 Awards, 5 Elkanah, 6 Deneb, 7 Rye, 12 Byzantium, 14 Edifice, 16 Retired, 17 Squeak, 19 Sisal, 21 Ex-con, 22 Jus.
Crossword winners
Winners (0475 Cryptic): Fr A Dearman, Prestwich; Mrs R Grafftey-Smith, Malmesbury.
Winners (0475 Quick): John Geary, Romford; Margaret Macmillan, Isle of Cumbrae.
Sudoku 0477
Solution 04756
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